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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
DEEP DOWN T'ERN.
The Wonderful ArIesinn We'll Of belle
Plaine, Iowa.


''''' 'i', ''n ,5 w. ho''.orI
''''e TIME SINCE mr. 'hesVer Tracy, l"r-
merry 81 TINS town. nut no" OF I-uzerne,
Iowa, promised 10 send letters and state
ments in regard 10 the great flowing well of
which .,,cL .vtrave,,ut stnri.s hava h,.n
=. j., ~
~ ''e P'P'''' A"' i'""'"b
VIII ehhb"hy tine iactS' ana some statements
regarding these wells
In the spring of 1886 Hilton Brothers a
Co of Belle Plaiue. who had "A celebrated
creamery at that point. decided to sink a
deep well, in the hopes Of obtaining pure
and cold water for their creamery. They
employed parties to sink well. much after
the plan Of sinking wells for oil When "A
depth Of 9li feet was reached, water came
up with great force. SO that it rose 80 feet
in pipes. The water proved good and at
once other people set about digging wells
After penetrating the earth few feet a
blue clay stratum was struck extending
down To a quicksand stratum in which wa
ter was found in every case. The force Of
the outflow was powerful-sufIicient 10 be
taken into the highest parts Of buildings.
run motors, supply fire hose. etc There
we're various oniectures as TO what caused
the flow Of water, where it came from, and
the like. Here let il be stated that IA philu
suphical explanation. and one that satisfies
most scientific men. is that the water source
is Mt some distant point where the country
is higher than the place of outflow. The
water percolating down where the earth is
porous into some opening pushes out in all
directions to find vent as in natural springs.
If if 81 bappens that the rock STRATA or the
clay or other stratum is such that it cannot
find vent or assure. il is held in-down-
with such force as the supply above gives 10
II water fountain where the head is situated
HIGHER above it. When the auger reaches
down through the rock or other stratum
that confines the water. oil. gas. or other
substance they flow out the hole with such
force as the head or pressure behind gives
them. In this case il is supposed that there
are some high lands somewhere that have
filed the underground reservoir, which only
needs nm ouening To supply the town with
such streams as the aperture could flow.
After several smaller wells had been dug
il WAS decided by citizens in the lower sec
tim of the town (village) 10 club together
and sink "A well for culinary. fire and other
| nurnnses They were 10 mt down "A two
! inch hole. which they Thought the water
yuuld enlarge sufficiently 10 put down n
three inch pipe. when they were to adjust
| the min. and have matters ARRANGED Ia their.
| convenience. Accordingly they sunk the
! hole In n depth of 1913 feet. and water ,yas
| struck which was discharged with great
/ force In the attempt To shove down n
| three inch casing nine the water broke mn
around the casing, and soon got beyond ali
| control The situation was serious the hole
WINS washed out 10 he two feet i'm diameter.
| Rv M means mt hand could il be stopped
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
MISCELLANY.



Lent was drpory aud late that year:
April Ia May was going;
But the lettering moon refused to round,
And the wild southeast was blowing
bay by day, from my window high,
watched, lonely warder,
For building bird in the garden trees
ora flower In the sheltered border
But only heard the chilly rain
On the roof Of my chamber heating;
or the wild sea wind To- the tossing laughs
Its wail Of wreck repeating;
Aud said: "Ah me- It's n weary world
This cherries April weather;
The beautiful things will druup and die
Blossom and bird together
At last the storm was spent ! slept,
Lulled by the.trrd winds signing,
To wake N morn with the sunshine full
ON floor and garden lying;
Aud lo, the hyacinth Lnds were blown;
a robin was swcetly singing;
The cherry blooms by the wall were white;
Aud the Easter bells were ringing
It was long ago, but the memory lives;
And In all life's I.enten surrows
When tempests Of grief aud trouble b.at,
dread the dark to-morrows,
think Of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing
AT morn the cherry blooms will be- white,
And the Easter bells be ringing"
Efiun Deuu BrDcfOf
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

This morning, happening to pass No. II
Avenue Montague, | called on the Grand
Francois" wrote a London World CORES
pOndent the other day. lyon will find
NJ. DE Lesseps in the courtyard with his
children, said the man servant on duty at
the door and without further ceremony,
l walked through the passage leading to the
spacious stable yard, covered with loose
gravel, where found the patriarch giving
a riding lesson to two of his daughters,
Miles Helene and Solange. Wearing light
overcoat and brown polo cap, the more
than octogenarian isthmus piercer was
cracking long circus whip and making the
little black ponies trot and gallop-now run
ming after this one and now after that one,
giving advice in firm tones, active and gay
as a man of 90 In the DE Lesseps family
each child as soon as he or she measures
30 inches high, is put on the back of pony
and trained by the father to figure with
honor in the equestrian battalion which Pa
risians have become accustomed to look for
daily in the Bois de Boulogne. The vitality
of NJ. de Lesseps is really marvellous, and,
in spite of his age, he seems TO make no eff
fort to diminish the wear and tear of his
daily life. He rides, works, dimes out and
makes speeches about the Panama canal as
indefatigably as ever
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
A Gr,n, California m..eI burned.

The magnificent Hotel del Monte at Mon
terey, in southern California, was discovered
ON fire shortly before midnight last Friday
night. Everything was done to save it, but
without success The hotel and contents
were totally destroyed No lives were lost
There were nearly 800 guests in the hotel
mostly Eastern people, the ma iority Of whom
lost all Of their trunks and apparel. Those
who were not overcome 10y fright saved
their trunks and money The hotel belong
cd to the Southern Pacific railway company,
and was considered the handsomest water
ing place hotel in America. 1t cost $50,
900 and was not insured. Monterey is over
100 years old and one Of the most interest
ing Of the old Spanish towns ON the Pacific
coast. and it was chosen by the railroad
company as the most desirable place on the
coast at which to establish great winter
and spring resort for Eastern people. As
,oon as the company learned of tile fire, it
sent special trains TO convey the guests to
san Francisco, where the sorry hooking
crowd was cared for
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

job for $4,000, and it was undertaken. His
project was to sink an X inch tube down
the hole to relieve the flow Of water and
then ~ pack the outside Of it with such ma
terinl rs would stop the outside flow. As
this letter is being finished, the time Of the
contract has nearly expired, and the big
tube project seems to he failure some of
the smaller tubes first put down, or the big
cone has been struck, and the contractor
is unable to sink his II inch pipe deeper by
any means yet employed. 1t is hoped he
will succeed, both for his own good and the
benefit of the town. If he does not succeed
he gets nothing for his job During one
stage Of the job man in diving armor
went down 100 feet in the hole, and by some
accident came very near losing his life lie
will not be likely to 20 down into another
well soon
Since the wells in this town have been in
successful operation, others have been sunk
in vicinities four 10 six miles away, all of
which are successful
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

Immense forest fires are raging in the
cedar brakes ON the BRACES river in Texas,
causing disastrous loss of property.
Archbishop Carrigan has sent Dr. James
Curran, well-known Roman Catholic
priest, to do penance in New Jersey mon
astery because he appeared the other night
ON the platform with the deposed Father
Glynn at a public meeting held in New
York
Johann Most, the anarchist sentenced last
June To years Imprisonment for his in
cendiary speeches, was set free last week
from the penitentiary on Blackwell's island
The IL months were committed 10 10 ON nc
count of the prisoners good conduct while
behind the bars. He has greatly changed
in appearance and looks subdued lie avoid
ed a crowd Of his old supporters who had
gathered 10 meet him ON his arrival in New
York
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

The report of Finance Minister Sir
Charles Upper shows that the public debt
of Canada amounts to $500 OOO, 900, an in
crease of more than -, 600 600 during the
last fiscal year
During the last six years 1900 persons
have died of cholera in the city Of Calcutta
and its suburbs The city is known as
''the home of the cholera" That it is 50 is
due to its wretched sanitary condition, and
a society has been formed TO try to effect
an Improvement,
The Louisiana lottery company meets
poetic justice in an attack of counterfeiters
who are floating thousands of limitations of
its tickets which are 50 cleverly done that
it is impossible to tell them from the genu-
inc. As the lottery company itself is un-
der the ban of the law it has no remedy
against the counterfeiters.
A new order composed of war veterans
has been started in Philadelphia. 1t is
called the Union veteran legion, and TO be
come member it is necessary TO have
served two consecutive years as an actual
enlisted soldier. The order is designed 10
bring together the actual soldiers of the
war. Substitutes and drafted men are ex-
cluded.
Morillo Noyes of Vermont, superintend-
ent of the division of supplies in the post
office department at Washington, has been
appointed chief of the bond division.
Following is the inscription on brass
tablet which has recently been placed in
the window in the south transept of St..
Johns church, Washington, ID, c. This
inscription in memory of Chester Allan Ar
thur is placed here by the yestry. He was
the twenty-frst President of the United
States a worshiper in the church, and in
! 1884 erected the window 10 the memory OF
his wife He died Nov IL, 1886"
Some of the papers are in wrangle over
the notice of Rev, DR.. Burchard in the new
cyclopedia Of American biography issued
by the Appletons because it is said therein
that his Rum, Romanism and Rebellion
remark changed several thousand votes ann
defeated Mr. Blaine. The New York Times
/ declares this statement rank mendacity,
and the Evening Post does not think it jus
titled. The Springfield Republican rightly
says that the real thing 10 object to in thu
statement is not It's truth or falsity, but it,
improperly in the place where it is found
/ To import partisan politics into encyclopedia
where statements should he ms nearly color
] less as possible, is serious mistake.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

A CURIOUS PROPOSITION has Just been
made by NJ Camille Flammarion, the we'll
known French scientific writer. He wishes
at once to preserve international peace and
to enlarge the sum of human knowledge
concerning the structure of the earth. To
this end he would have the various Euro
pean governments unite and turn their sol
diers into miners and their bayonets into
pickaxes and spades. At some suitable place
a vast well should be excavated, miles in
depth. Indeed, NJ. Flammarion would dig
downward until he reached the central
fire, >" or the centre of the globe. Thus pos
tive knowledge of the structure of the
earth would be gained peace for the time
would be secured, for the nations would
neither fight nor fear each other while all
their armies were underground and, in
deed, permanent reign of peace would be
begun, since the soldiers in the mines would
forget the arts of war, and the nations,
finding out how well they got along without
them, would raise no more great ornaments.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
The Richmond Hotel Pire.

The coruner's jury that has been investi-
eating the Richmond hotel fire at Buffalo,
have returned verdict censuring the chief
engineer of the fire department, the fire
commissioners and the proprietor Of the
hotel for gross neglect of duty in not hav-
ing more than one fire escape placed ON the
building The city authorities are also nrg
ed to have the electric wires, which inter
fered greatly with the work of the tremen,
removed. Two more charred bodies have
been found in the ruins.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

been kindly provided with a generous out
IT. 10y the congregation Of the Methodist
church Of this city, Of which they are
members, sufficient 10 last them for a year
or more.
The steamer Annie Taylor has just been
built in Liverpool and presented to Bishop
Taylor She is 30 feet long, 81 hold, with
two cabins 10 10y feet and draws two feet
of water. She is fitted up with a gallery
bath room, capstan 10 work by steam, cleo
trio lights, hose and nozzle TO run 10y steam
for many purposes among others 10 put to
flight, if need he, fleet Of attacking Gu
noes There will also he "A saw mill and a
separate steam engine 10 run it to saw wood
when III transit and to saw planks when in
rest The boat will he shipped from Liver
pool in manloads Of 60 pounds each and
will be transported 23j miles overland 10
the waters which will be its future home
Bishop Taylor, now in Liberia, expects 10
meet the party at Cape Palmas on the west
coast of Africa. -- harrington Free Press
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

Along with the lawyer who manages his
own case and has fool for a client, and
the doctor who practices upon himself as
patient, is the yacht owner who acts as his
own sailing master when his yacht is en-
gagged in "a race. 49, hiiddeLIhid Ledger.
A young man who can milk and take
care of furnace" adyertises in the New
York Herald for situation Some milk
man should hire him, The pumps can be
given a rest with man ON the place who
can milk furnace. IitisbuiU Chronicle.
''On next Sunday" said Father Mcguire
to his congregation, 1.-THE funeral of A. b,
will be held in this church. | shall preach
IA funeral sermon ON the occasion, and the
man himself win be here-the first time in
20 years. - Chicago Liring Church.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
Lieu,. zaIin.Lr. Arrow.
THE INVENTION WHICH Is TO MAKE NAvI
A THING or THE PAST

me Inv kNlluN W MIN N ~ MANI NAV AEN
a THING or THE PAST.
Any one lettering along the high bluff at
Fort Hamilton this afternoon might have
seen an arrow sailing through the clear
sky. 1t looked like shaft from an ancient
crossbOw, and one might follow it for three
miles in its majestic course, II thousand feet
above the lower bay, till it fell into the
waves and raised column of water $50
feet into the air That arrow was dynam-
lite shell, and it will make navies obsolete.
If it had struck a l0000-ton ironclad, it
would have crushed in the vessels side, dis
located the machinery and killed every man
aboard, either by its explosion or its con
cussion. What gunpowder was TO Robin
Hoods arrow, Lieut.. Zalinski's arrow is
now TO gunpowder. A hundred military
and naval men met yesterday at Fort La
fayette and watched the experiments with
the dynamite gun. 1t was go feet long and
about AS thick as a gas pipe, having AN 81
inch bore. Four cartridges, weighing l4O
pounds each and carrying 80 pounds of dy-
Mantle, were fired distances of from one to
three miles. Gen. Schofield, who was pres
ent, pronounced the experiments a great
success. new Government cruiser is 10
be armed with four dynamite guns 40 feet
long. One of them will fire 400 pounds Of
dynamite at a shot. The gun was fired with
compressed air, the pressure used being
1000 pounds 10 the square inch. -NeiC York
despatch, March sGh
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
Poisoned BY a Voodoo Doctor.

Six members of the Harris family in "A
negro settlement near Milledgeville, Ga,
have died from eating food poisoned few
days ago, it is supposed by a voodoo doctor
named Bonner. The doctor had used his
arts to inspire great terror for him among
the negroes, but Harris refused to look up
ON him as a supernatural being. This en-
ragged Bonner greatly, and he declared that
that which the Harris family ate would
henceforth act as poison, and that before u
new moon should come not one of the fami
ly would he alive. Two days later the Har
ris family of II persons were taken violent
ly sick and one after another died until six
in all had persisted. The rest of the family
are hardly likely to recover. Harris him
self became violently insane and died in
terrible cOntOrtiOns. As soon as the white
people learned of the facts Bonner was hid
den by the colored people and has not yet
been found
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

\ gang Of cowboys dashed into Ansel-
mo, Neb., Friday and took possession of the
town and killed one man. They kept up a
reign of terror 10y incessant shooting with
revolvers in the most reckless manner
Sheriff Penn Of Broken Bow was finally
summoned and he shot dead two Of the
ring Headers in attempting 10 arrest them
More trouble is expected, as the COW boys
are in full force and swearing vengeance
The latest reports said that deputies were
being hurried to the scene, and it is ex-
pected "A desperate battle will ensue upon
their arrival
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

a despatch from Vienna 10 the London
Chronicle says While the car was walk
ing on the terrace overlooking the lawn at
Gatschina on Tuesday of last week, shot
was fired from behind bush and bullet
whistled close n his ear. A second shot
was fired from behind another bush, but
without effect A sentinel, who was near,
Immediately fired upon the first assassin
and killed him on the spot. The second
assassin tried to escape, but was arrested.
He proved to he an officer of the army. -
Twenty other arrests have been made Of
persons believed to he implicated Three
persons who were concerned in the attempt
to assassinate the ear by means Of bomb,
in st Petersburg on March l3 were hanged
last week
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

The REPORTS OF THE New ENTERPRISES
IN THE South during the first quarter of
this year certainly bear out much that has
been said about the business boom in that
part of the country. In Alabama the list
of new industries includes 10 coal and coke
companies, ~ foundries and iron works, IA
furnaces, cotton and rolling mills. Elev-
en- mining and railroad companies have
been organized in Georgia 10 wood work
ing mills, 3 mining companies and . natural
gas companies in Kentucky; cotton mills,
3 foundries, tobacco factories and 10 rail
roads in North Carolina, and "A lumber
works, IL coal mining companies, cotton
mills and 10 street railroads in tennessee.
There are also many minor enterprises in
these and other states
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
Charles KingsIey's Raster Hymn.
g.. III. land l,.t Factor L.at,tntr

See the land her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose,
Seeds, so long in darkness sleeping,
Burst at last from winter SHOWS.
Earth with heaven PbOye rejolces;
Fields and garders hail the spring;
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices,
While the wild birds build and sing
You, To whom your Maker granted
Powers TO those sweet birds unknown,
Use the craft by God implanted;
Use the reason not your own.
Here, while heaven and earth reioices,
Each his Easter tribute bring
Work Of fingers, chant OF voices,
Like the birds who build and sing.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

A terrible fight occurred last Saturday
morning 10 miles below Hemphill in Sa
bine county, Tex, between Capt. Scott and
his little company Of state rangers on the
one side, and old Willis Conner and his two
SONS ON the other Three of the Connor
family and one ranger named Rogers were
instantly killed and Capt. Scott and anoth-
er of his men were badly if not fatally
wounded. The Connors brought ON the
fight by firing from ambush upon the rang
ers, who We're hunting timber thieves.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

j, G, Waller, lately chief cook at the Van
Ness House, is now en- route for Africa,
where he has been engaged as steward and
cook upon the steamer Annie Taylor, which
will ply the waters of the Upper Congo
river in the interests of Bishop Taylor's
missionary work in that land. Mr. Waller
is accom- panied by his wife, aud they sail
in company with a party of missionaries
who go 10 reinforce those already in the
Congo field Mr.. and Mrs. Waller have
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
Why did the Women

of this country use thirteen million cakes of
Proctor & CANDLES Lenox Soap in 1885,
Buy cake of Lenox and you will soon understand why.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
CARTER MEDICINE CO.,
NEW YORK CITY.
Good News!
To AVOID CARRNING OYER
RUBBER GOODS.
WE SHALL FOR THE MONTH OF APRIL MAKE
TINE rOIlOMlNG Low rRICES.

Mems Crack-PrOOf Boots, worth
, pairs of any other make, 81. 30.
Mems WOOnSOcket, pure gum,
first quality, $500.
Mems WOOnSOcket, dull finish,
first quality, $3.50.
Mems WOOnSOcket, dull finish,
light weight, first quality, S2.75.
Mems Boston Pebble Leg, light
weight, first quality, $2.75.
Boys WOOnSOcket, pure gum,
first quality, $3.50.
Boys WOOnSOcket, dull finish,
first quality, 1925.
Boys Boston Pebble Leg, first
quality, 1925.
Mems Fine Light Buckle Are
ties for Spring wear, $l.OO.
One Lot Mems RubberS, soc.
One Lot Ladies' Rubbers, 30c.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

For Gentlemen Includes all that is neat aud mob.
by Fancy Shirts in Chryiots and Garnirs Per
Gales, warranted perfectly fast color, 'rcrrins''
Imported Kid Gloves with silk embroidered backs,
all shades, 81 - To S2uO. silk and Satin Ties from
2jr To SlOO Trunks and Bags, a large variety,
and in fact everything embraced in making up
IA first class outfit for a Man, Boy or Child
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
EDMrNDS md the FISHERMEN.


Deur SIR: In behalf Of the many thou
sand fishermen of New England, as well as
personally, | wish to return thanks to you
for the great interest you have shown in
the protection of the fishery industry.
From the work accomplished 10y yourself
and others we feel assured we are to have
the protection Of our government in pros
ccutiug our honest calling. We take new
courage for the future. 1t may interest
you to know that new life has also been
given to the ship yards that have for long
time been deserted. There are now build
ing at Essex and Gloucester 10 new yes
sells, of which 10 are for the fisheries One
Of the largest measures about l4O tons and
will he engaged in the mackerel fishery. II
is built and will he commanded 10y the
writer.
As small mark If appreciation Of the
distinguished services Of yourself as well as
honor ~ the business, ! would ask the fla
vor Of christening my vessel the George +.
Edmunds Trusting the same may meet
with your aupruyal
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08

Dcdr Sir: have your favor Of the oath
inst. and feel much gratified that you have
thought Of naming your new vessel for me.
| shall be very glad to have my name face
the storms with her. hope that her name
will not lead the Canadians 10 be more vex-
ntinus than theY otherNse would be
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1887-04-08
STYLE, FIT p: FINISH

Cannot br found elsewhere in town. Spring
and Fail over Sacks, silk faced and silk laced
throughout, light and dark colors We feel safe
in saying that you can get a fit equal to the finest
custom work at about one half the expense. Odd
Pants. our Youths Pants are cut by